We are pleased to present:
Fine Globes and Telluriums (1615-1930)
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A magnificent pair of French library globes by the doyenne of French globe makers.
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Didier Robert DE VAUGONDY. Globe Terrestre; Globe Celeste. Paris, Terrestrial 1773; Celestial c. 1764
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$ 450,000.00
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One of the earliest commercial globes to be issued by the Blaeu firm. Willem Blaeu, its founder, had worked with Tycho Brahe, the esteemed astronomer, from 1595 to 1596, and using Brahe’s new star catalog (not yet published), he issued a celestial globe for Anthonisz.
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Willem Jansz BLAEU. Terrestrial Table Globe. Amsterdam, 1602 [but after 1621]
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$ 90,000.00
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A fine surviving example of one of the earliest Italian table globes.
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Giuseppe di Rossi [After Jodocus Hondius]. Terrestrial Globe. Rome 1615.
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$ 90,000.00
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A fine pair of attractive library globes on elegant “Georgian” stands. By the early 19th century, globes had become an essential element to any Englishman’s library or study, and Smith was among the leading English globe makes of this period. He was the Engraver and Map Seller Extraordinary to HRH Prince of Wales.
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Charles and Son SMITH. Smith’s Terrestrial Globe; Smith’s Celestial Globe. London 1830.
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$ 85,000.00
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A fine example of the 19-inch Coronelli library globe. This, the first Coronelli globe at 19 inches is particularly rare, being conceived and prepared on Coronelli’s tour of Europe.
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Vincenzo Maria Coronelli. Terrestrial Globe. London and Venice 1696.
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$ 85,000.00
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the largest and one of the rarest globes to be issued by any British globe maker
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MALBY and Son. Reissued by James Wyld, Malby’s terrestrial compiled from the latest & most authentic studies. London, 1885
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$ 60,000.00
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A fine example of a Bonne globe. Globes by Bonne are rare on the market.
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Rigobert Bonne. Globe Terrestre ....Paris 1774.
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$ 60,000.00
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On this globe, the US western boundary follows the Red River Northwest, as agreed in the Adam Onis treaty of 1819. The Pacific Northwest reflects the ambiguity of political control with the US and Great Britain jointly administering the region, a situation that continued up until the Oregon Treaty of 1846.
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John and William NEWTON. Newton’s New and Improved Terrestrial Globe; Newton’s New and Improved Celestial Globe. London 1820.
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$ 48,000.00
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A Fine Regency globe dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks, then president of the Royal Society, and the dedication states that it is engraved from a map drawn up by Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1823), a mapmaker of great repute.
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W. and T.M. BARDIN (fl. 1783 – 1819) Sold by W. and S. Jones (fl. 1791 – 1859) The New British Terrestrial Globe containing all the latest discoveries… engraved from an accurate drawing by Mr. Arrowsmith. London, 1829.
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$ 35,000.00
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An attractive table globe, in the distinctive style of the Delamarche firm, one of the most successful late 18th century French makers of maps and globes and the successor of the great map and globe-making making family of Robert De Vaugondy.
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Charles-François Delamarche. Terrestrial Globe. Paris, 1791.
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$ 30,000.00
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George Adams became maker of mathematical instruments and optician to George III. His son Dudley took over the firm upon his father's death and issued a new 18-inch pair for which this is the celestial half.
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Dudley Adams. Celestial Library Globe. London 1799.
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$ 18,000.00
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A fine example of a mid-19th century American floor globe from the Boston school of globe making
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Josiah LORING (1775 – ca. 1840) and Gilman JOSLIN, Loring’s Terrestrial Globe, Boston 1851
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$ 16,000.00
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An attractive table globe, in the distinctive style of the English firm of the Cary Brothers, one of the most successful English makers of maps and globes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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John CARY (1754 – 1835) Cary's New Celestial Globe. London, 1800.
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$ 9,000.00
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Ernst Schotte established his geographical publishing business in 1855, and soon became one of the largest publishing houses in Germany.
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Ernst SCHOTTE and Co. A German Tellurium, Berlin, ca. 1875
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$ 7,000.00
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An attractive American school tellurium built to show the relative movements of the inner planets around the sun.
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Trippensee Planetarium Company, A School Tellurium, Detroit, Michigan. ca. 1830’s
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$ 7,000.00
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In his early versions of the Gilman/Loring, Gilman mounted these 12-inch diameter globes on tall and elegant cast metal stands.
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Gilman JOSLIN (1804 – 1886) Joslin’s Terrestrial Globe... compiled from Smith’s New English Globe with improvements by Annin and Smith, revised by G.W. Boynton. Boston, ca 1860
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$ 4,000.00
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A classic German school tellurium wired for electricity.
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Columbus Verlag, School Tellurium, Berlin, ca. 1930s
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$ 3,000.00
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George Cram established his geographical publishing business in Chicago around 1870, but after his death in 1928, his son moved the business to Indiana.
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George F. CRAM and Co. Cram’s Unrivaled Terrestrial Globe, Indianapolis, Indiana, c.1930
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$ 600.00
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